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Ruin Seize Thee, Ruthless King! Confusion On Thy Banners Wait!
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Ruin seize thee, ruthless king!
Confusion on thy banners wait!
Though fann'd by Conquest's crimson wing,
They mock the air with idle state.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771)
-- The Bard, I, 1, Line 1
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Loose his beard, and hoary hair Stream'd like a meteor to the troubled air.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Bard, I, 2, Line 5...
Visions of glory, spare my aching sight! Ye unborn ages, crowd not on my soul!
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Bard, III, 1, Line 11...
Weave the warp, and weave the woof, The winding-sheet of Edward's race.
Give ample room and verge enough The characters of hell to trace....
To high-born Hoel's harp, or soft Llewellyn's lay.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Bard, I, 2, Line 14...
Dear as the light that visits these sad eyes; Dear as the ruddy drops that warm my heart.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Bard, I, 3, Line 12...
From Helicon's harmonious springs A thousand rills their mazy progress take.
-- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Progress of Poesy, I, 1, Line 3...
Keep thy shop, and thy shop will keep thee. -- George Chapman (1557-1634) -- Eastward Ho, Act i, Sc.
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Confusion will be my epitaph as I walk a cracked and broken path If we make it we can all sit back and laugh but I fear that tomorrow we'll be crying.
-- King Crimson, "In the Court of the Crimson King...
And truth severe, by fairy fiction drest. -- Thomas Gray (1716-1771) -- The Bard, III, 3, Line 3